Baguette!

I just wrote an email to a co-worker. In it, I mentioned a baguette that I was going to bring to a holiday function. I typed the word out naturally, without thinking about it.

"Baguette"

But then, when I went to mention it again, I thought about the word and typed it as I thought it would appear

"Bagette"

and my spell-checker helpfully underlined it in red, to point out my error.

I did not know that I knew how to correctly spell the word "Baguette" until I tried to do it and then failed. When I didn't TRY specifically to do it right, I nailed it on the first pass.

In this case, my brain got in the way of itself and screwed up something it was already perfectly capable of doing. Perhaps I should relax and employ my first instincts.

At least when spelling the names of French bread...